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Tagsphoenician
26 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Iron Age Phoenician to Roman (c. 990 BCE – 500 CE) · Phoenician (Tyrian) / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Phoenician island city's drowned northern harbour basin – jetty and moles 2–3 m down north of Alexander's causeway.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Persian (Achaemenid) to Roman Imperial · Phoenician Sidonian; Achaemenid Persian patronage; Hellenized then Romanized
Phoenician Asclepieion 529 BCE–300 CE on Awali/Bostrenos: Throne of Astarte and baby votive healing pool.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Late Bronze Age to Medieval (1400 BCE – 1200 CE) · Mycenaean / Phoenician / Ptolemaic / Roman
Phoenician Kition 9th c. BCE — 6 ship sheds at −1 m and 60 m mole at −1.5 m under Larnaca Bamboula seafront.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Phoenician to Late Antique (800 BCE – 600 CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Nuragic
8th c. BCE Nora Stone Phoenician colony — 120 m quay at −3 m off Capo di Pula isthmus with 7 wrecks at −8 m.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Crusader (c. 3000 BCE – 1291 CE) · Canaanite-Phoenician / Egyptian / Persian / Roman / Crusader
Phoenician Sidon's drowned quay beneath Crusader Sea Castle – ashlar mole and bollards at –1.5 to –4 m.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Phoenician to Classical (c. 800–397 BCE) · Phoenician / Carthaginian
Phoenician lagoon island with 1 km submerged causeway at –0.5 m and cothon harbour, Stagnone.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Neolithic to Medieval (c. 6000 BCE – 1300 CE) · Neolithic / Early Bronze Canaanite / Phoenician / Egyptian / Persian / Roman
World's oldest Phoenician anchorage drowned 2–5 m off Jbeil – Bronze Age anchor field and proto-mole.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c. 2000 BCE – 640 CE) · Canaanite / Sikil Sea Peoples / Phoenician / Hellenistic / Herodian / Roman
Lagoon harbour city behind three islets – Phoenician quay and slipways at –0.5 to –3 m in Dor lagoon.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Middle Bronze Age through Crusader (c.2000 BCE–640 CE); MB Canaanite → Phoenician (Siky) → Assyrian province → Persian–Hellenistic Phoenician Dor · MB Canaanite → Iron I Siky/Phoenician → Phoenician (Tyre) → Perso-Phoenician province → Hellenistic
Phoenician purple-dye port (c.2000 BCE–640 CE) — 20 ha Carmel headland tell with Iron I Wenamun harbour and mole (Stern).
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c BCE–5th c CE; peak 7th–6th c BCE) · Phoenician / Mauretanian / Portuguese
Tiny purple island with earliest Atlantic Phoenician 7th c BCE outpost for murex dye – 'Tyr's Atlantic anchor'.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Phoenician to Late Antiquity (7th c BCE – 7th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Two-kilometre strand city on Djerba's southeastern causeway shore, Meninx was the island's Phoenician emporion turned Roman civitas capital, famed for murex purple second only to T...
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Phoenician to Early Islamic (8th c BCE–8th c CE; peak Mauretanian-Roman) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Mauretanian / Roman
Phoenician tell 8th c BCE of Hesperides legend with garum factories, hybrid theatre-amphitheatre and Helios mosaic.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Late Antique · Phoenician / Roman
Phoenician port 1101 BCE now 12 km inland due to siltation; Roman capital of Africa with waterfall mosaic house.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Mycenaean to Ptolemaic (13th c. BCE – 312 BCE) · Mycenaean / Phoenician / Cypriot Cypro-Classical
Phoenician copper harbour whose Astarte temple and shipshed ramp lie –1 to –4 m under modern Larnaca bay fill.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Phoenician / Roman / Early Christian · Phoenician / Roman / Christian
Phoenician-Roman-Christian cape town with Great 7-aisle basilica (largest in Africa) and St Salsa martyrion.
🇪🇸 Spain · Temple complex
Iron Age Orientalizing (Tartessian, c.600–400 BCE) · Tartessian–Phoenician Orientalizing (southwest Iberian)
Cancho Roano (Tartessian–Orientalizing c.600–400 BCE) on the La Serena plain is a unique mudbrick palace-sanctuary, three successive complexes (A–C) built over each other, the final 30 × 20 m…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Neolithic → EB → MB → LBA Amarna → Iron → Persian → Crusader (7000 BCE–1300 CE) · Levantine (Amorite → Egyptian/Hittite → Phoenician → Crusader)
Akkar plain tell-town (Neolithic–Crusader) — EB rampart, Amarna Irqata, Phoenician and Crusader castle on 30 ha.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
MB → LBA Egyptian/Hittite → Iron Phoenician → Persian → Hellenistic (2000–300 BCE) · Amorite → Egyptian (Amarna) → Hittite → Phoenician
Amarna Sumur (350×325 m oval) — Egyptian garrison, Hittite destruction, Phoenician plain capital in Akkar.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Bronze – Crusader (peak Phoenician 1200–333 BCE) · Phoenician (Canaanite)
Only excavated Phoenician heartland city (2000 BCE–333 BCE) — pottery, glass and Tanit shrine.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Neolithic to Medieval (8800 BCE–present; urban from c.5000 BCE) · Neolithic / Canaanite / Phoenician / Egyptian / Roman / Crusader
Continuously inhabited since Neolithic, Byblos is one of the oldest cities in the world. Phoenician port that gave the Bible its name (byblos = papyrus), with layers from Neolithic, Chalcolithic,…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Phoenician to Late Antique (8th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman
Phoenician-Roman port under modern Bizerte with lagoon quay.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
MBA through Classical · Canaanite MBA → Ugaritic Shuksi (LB) → Phoenician → Greek emporion
Syrian coastal harbour tell (Shuksi) with MBA to Greek emporion — MBA Canaanite, LB Mycenaean imports and Phoenician Euboean emporion, Danish 1958 dig.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Neolithic to present (c.4000 BCE–present; Bronze Age city from 3000 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Third great Phoenician city-state, Sidon was famed for glassmaking, purple dye, and as mother-city of Tyre.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Ottoman (c.2750 BCE–present; Phoenician peak 1100–332 BCE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Phoenician island-city and legendary birthplace of Europa and Dido, Tyre dominated Mediterranean purple-dye trade.
